Regulatory Compliance Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Regulatory Compliance Officer (RCO) to join our Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Divisions.

The RCO role is a front facing role which forms a key part of the operational team. RCOs are required to work alone and alongside inspectors and specialists supporting their work. The work of the RCO is fundamental to informing decisions around targeting resources and prioritisation. You will assist with inspector-led workplace inspections; investigations of work-related incidents affecting workers and the public, health and safety related enforcement activity; and campaigns and promotional activities designed to improve the management of health and safety in the workplace.

As an RCO you will work as part of a regulatory team. Your role, once fully operational, will include the following activities:

Gathering intelligence about workplaces which fall within the remit of CEMHD to regulate in order to help inform regulatory decisions;
Liaison with SEPA and local authorities;
Making enquiries into reported incidents or concerns to inform the operational team leader’s investigation decision;
Taking voluntary witness statements;
Securing and processing evidence and contributing to its proper management;
Visiting workplaces to provide advice and identify matters of concern where an inspection intervention may be justified;
Attending court hearings to take notes and provide feedback or to give evidence on matters relating to RCO involvement in the case;
Interacting with a wide group of duty holders, employees, trade union representatives, Local Authority officers, members of the public and other interested parties including the Police and solicitors in the course of reactive support work.

For more information on this role please follow the link below.

DevOps Engineer

To deliver Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering for all HSE cloud-infrastructure services ensuring that all technologies (cloud-network, cloud-hosting (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), cloud-storage and cloud-security) remain available, performant to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and relevant to business requirements. Deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and support the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. Operate and deliver the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. Ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered. We have an opportunity to recruit a DevOps Engineer to join the ITS Division.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Main Duties:

As a DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Engineering team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling.
You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment.
You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE.

Specialist Inspector – Explosives (Band 3/SEO)

Our Explosives Safety specialists ensure employers across Great Britain – a whole range of essential industries with thousands of workers – to work safely. In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to visit and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities, one day you could be engaging with a large multi-national munitions manufacturer and the next a small fireworks store.

You’ll work alongside other HSE technical and regulatory specialists to ensure work activities are operating within the legislative framework by various regulatory interventions including inspecting, investigating and providing advice.

Your work will make the most of your experience – whether that’s inspecting an explosive processing plant, helping an employer understand the right controls to have in place, or contributing to the development of industry standards and guidelines. The balance of an individual’s key responsibilities will depend on their role within the Unit. As you can see this role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can.

Key responsibilities include;

Inspecting a variety of workplaces, either on your own or with a specialist team, to make sure that risks are managed appropriately, deciding whether conditions meet minimum legal requirements and relevant good practice, driving improvements and gaining commitment to align with the law.
Forensically analysing explosives safety related concerns, accidents and reportable incidents to identify the root cause and where necessary, calling in other specialist support and taking legal action to prevent a recurrence;
Undertaking permissioning activities on the licensing of explosives storage and manufacturing sites and on the classification of explosives for transport;
Contributing as a member of the Explosives Safety Unit to promote Health and Safety improvements to national and international standards at various fora, and at relevant conferences.

Given that HSE regulates sites across the whole of GB you will be expected to spend periods working away from home, typically 2 to 3 days every fortnight. HSE is flexible on how this expectation is delivered and recognises individuals’ personal commitments.

Person specification

You must be able to demonstrate:

Essential Skills & Criteria;

A breadth of knowledge and practical experience of the facilities used for the manufacture, storage and/or handling of explosives and associated energetic materials including experience of controlling explosives risks;
Practical understanding of applying the principles of explosives testing, including knowledge and experience of explosives properties and behaviours;
A practical understanding of explosives safety, chemistry or engineering and including knowledge of explosive ignition mechanisms;
Good communication skills
Good analytical and planning skills

Incident Manager

As HSE’s IT Incident Manager your role will be to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimise any adverse effects on business operations, ensuring that the best possible levels of service, quality, and availability are returned and maintained. You will maintain the highest standards of user and customer focus, ensuring that services are restored to user/customer satisfaction.

You will collaborate with cross functional teams to identify and address root causes for incidents, implementing preventative measures and act as a liaison between technical teams, management, and stakeholders to communicate incident status and resolution times as required. You will also work alongside HSE Resolver Teams to ensure third party vendors and services providers are engaged to resolve incidents within the agreed SLA’s as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

Effectively manage and support the resolution of IT incidents, ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
Undertake Quality Assurance Checks, providing feedback to HSE Resolver Teams and Third-Party Vendors as appropriate.
Regularly evaluate HSE’s Incident Management processes and implement improvements and efficiencies.
Generate regular (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) ServiceNow reports and Dashboards for management as required, to assess performance and identify areas of improvement.
Support HSE’s Major Incident Manager (MIM) participating in post-incident reviews to analyse the effectiveness of responses, document lessons learned, and implement improvements for future incident management.

IT Software Developer

This is a very exciting time to join Information Technology Services (ITS) as we continue to support HSE in the transformation of our IT services with a focus on modernising our IT Operations. As part of an internal software development function within HSE’s Information Technology Services, you will join a team responsible for the development, testing and support of HSE applications. A software developer designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs. The applications are hosted on a number of technologies (e.g. Azure; SQL Server; Ingres;) and developed using a variety of tools.

In this role, you will be responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach and creating code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse. HSE’s IT Services are currently undergoing a modernisation and we are about to get started on significant IT enabled Business Transformation. We are reinforcing in-house capability to give us the skills and experience we need to take our ambitious business plans forward. This post provides a challenging opportunity for a junior software developer to further their career and expand our development capability. Working in a small, technically skilled development team, you will develop and enhance small line of business applications.

As a Software Developer for HSE, you will help to develop new information systems and manage changes to operational information systems which support the work of HSE.

For more information on this role, please follow the link below.

Senior Internal Communications and Change Manager (EPD Band 3/SEO)

HSE is currently going through a period of significant change. We are creating the new Building Safety Regulator, have taken on responsibility for Great Britain’s new chemical regulation regime, and are working with the Government and industry on the safe transition to net zero. We also want to maintain Great Britain’s high workplace safety standards and ensure HSE is a great place to work and an employer of choice.

This role will help tell the HSE story to our colleagues in an effective and efficient way.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior change and internal communication professional to be part of an award-winning internal communications team. You will delivering impactful communications activity in support of corporate priorities and to help guide colleagues through periods of change, as we deliver our 10- year strategy to protect people and places.

Job description

This is a high-profile position in a small team, reporting to the Head of Internal Communications.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and proactive professional who is motivated to lead in a fast paced and collaborative environment.

Your work will include:

acting as a trusted advisor, support leadership engagement and organisational change
developing and delivering campaigns and/or communication programmes across multiple channels that deliver organisational priorities measured against key performance criteria evaluation and measurable communication outcomes
preparing copy and content for publication through internal channels, applying practical and creative digital skills and approaches where applicable (e.g. audio visual, use of imagery, desktop publishing, video editing) to prepare engaging content, taking into account current trends in communications channels
organising and facilitating internally facing events
monitoring performance and evaluating communication activity to demonstrate the impact of communications

Travel to other HSE offices and locations in the UK will be required in this role.

Person specification

Essential Skills & Criteria;

You will:

need strong influencing skills and the ability to cut through a variety of competing priorities
be able to take a strategic overview of communications to enable and drive organisational priorities
be experienced in building good working relationships at all grades and be an enthusiastic team-player with a proactive and collaborative attitude
have experience of developing and delivering change and internal communications campaigns at a senior/strategic level, advising senior leaders on complex challenges and successfully influencing colleagues
understand change management processes and how people react to working during periods of uncertainty, with experience of supporting colleagues and leaders through change projects
experience of applying practical and creative digital skills and approaches where applicable (e.g. audio visual, use of imagery, desktop publishing, video editing) to prepare engaging content, taking into account current trends in communications channels
experience of organising and facilitating internally facing events
be expected to demonstrate leadership qualities, be inspiring about our work and confident in your engagement
encourage mutual respect, value diversity and our different skills, experience and specialism
need to have political awareness, understanding of wider government agenda and propriety issues

Internal Communications and Change Manager (EPD Band 4/HEO)

This role will help tell the HSE story to our colleagues in an effective and efficient way.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced change and internal communication professional to be part of an award-winning internal communications team. You will delivering impactful communications activity in support of corporate priorities and to help guide colleagues through periods of change, as we deliver our 10- year strategy to protect people and places.

Job description

This is a high-profile position in a small team, reporting to a Senior Change and Internal Communications Manager.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and proactive professional who is motivated to lead in a fast paced and collaborative environment.

Your work will include:

preparing copy and content for publication and managing publication through our internal channels, applying practical and creative digital skills and approaches as appropriate (e.g. audio visual, use of imagery, desktop publishing, video editing) to prepare engaging content, taking into account current trends in communications channels
supporting delivery of campaigns and/or communication programmes across multiple channels
acting as a trusted advisor, support leadership engagement and organisational change
organising and facilitating internally facing events
monitoring performance and evaluating communication activity to demonstrate the impact of communications

Travel to other HSE offices and locations in the UK will be required in this role.

Person specification

Essential Skills & Criteria;

You will:

need strong influencing skills and the ability to cut through a variety of competing priorities
have experience in change and internal communications campaigns, successfully influencing colleagues
understand change management processes and how people react to working during periods of uncertainty
be experienced in building good working relationships at all grades and be an enthusiastic team-player with a proactive and collaborative attitude
be expected to demonstrate leadership qualities, be inspiring about our work and confident in your engagement
encourage mutual respect, value diversity and our different skills, experience and specialism
need to have political awareness, understanding of wider government agenda and propriety issues

Senior Software Developer

This is a very exciting time to join ITS as we continue to support HSE in the transformation of our IT services with a focus on modernising our IT Operations. As part of an internal software development function within HSE’s Information Technology Services, you will also lead, line manage and coach individual software developers responsible for the development, testing and support of HSE applications. You will also write clean, secure and testable code, building and enhancing Azure, SQL Server and Ingress applications.

HSE’s IT Services are currently undergoing a modernisation and we are about to get started on significant IT enabled Business Transformation. We are reinforcing in-house capability to give us the skills and experience we need to take our ambitious business plans forward.

Main duties:

Lead, manage and develop software solutions as part of a development team
Line manage, support and develop members of the development team
Document the design and build of systems being developed
Plan and account for project work to deliver systems development
Operate the tools and environments for system development
Support the Change lifecycle, developing changes for operational systems

Senior DevOps Engineer – CLOSING DATE EXTENDED TO 10/06/2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Senior QA Tester

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior QA Tester to join our growing team. You will be responsible for supporting the QA Test Manager with testing of Digital and Technology Services, including all infrastructures and components, during the delivery of Major Change Programmes and Continuous Improvement pipelines. You will work within programmes structured to deliver both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, ensuring that user functional and non-functional requirements are delivered completely and appropriately.

You will prioritise and report defects, to allow Programme Management to determine the progress of development and to manage the risks associated with delivery. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.